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Hi
I've upgraded to chromium edge but now videos are autoplaying again. I had this disabled on classic Edge but can't work out how to do this on the new version.
I've set "Media autoplay" to "Limit" in the "Site Permissions" section of settings but this doesn't seem to have had any effect at all (yes, I've restarted Edge / Windows).
I had also had this problem with dev / beta builds of Edge but hadn't got around to chasing it up until it became my primary browser.
In particular it's annoying on the MSN new pages linked to from the new tab page in Edge when they all have autoplaying video.
Thanks
Managing media playback issues and settings in Microsoft Edge on Windows 10
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Why isn't there an option called "Block"?
You'll probably find that the block option has to be enabled. Copy the next line into the address bar and press Enter:
edge://flags/#edge-autoplay-user-setting-block-option
Once this flag is enabled, you should see Block on the autoplay options menu.
Hi MichalTadeas and thanks for reaching out. My name is Joseph. I'm an independent advisor. I'll be happy to help you out today.
I would suggest you refer to the below steps and check if it helps to resolve the issue.
I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let me know how it goes.
Thank you!
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Hi Ash,
I am Sumit, an Independent Advisor and a 3 year Windows Insider MVP here to help.
In the new Microsoft Edge, the option of automatic playback is limited.
However, you can install an extension like autoplayblocker from the Chrome web store to disable Autoplay. (You may have to enable extensions from other store).
Classic Edge also had an option to override it for a given site, so any site that broke - you had the option of enabling the video on that site (or just not visiting the site at all).
The only way to "fix" sites that were breaking would be to lie to them about the video playing, which then introduces its own new set of complications and problems. They just need to give us control over what we want to do, like classic Edge did.
If it was just that the feature hadn't been implemented yet, then OK; what makes it worse, is that Microsoft have been advertising the feature and showing off about it in blogs, etc. when it doesn't actually work.
I've been using Chromium Edge since the dev branch was released and I don't think it has EVER blocked an autoplaying video so it would appear to be VERY "limited" when using the non-experimental feature.
Does new Edge still keep the feature to allow user to disable autoplay of the video on a web page? I can't find this feature which is in the old Edge.